Whales for the protection of the Panama Canal traffic
Whales for the protection of the Panama Canal traffic
Delivery routes from and to the Panama Canal likely need to protect the whales.
Humpback whales breed around the Pearl Islands 60 km (40 miles) from the southern entrance to the canal and disturb or even killed for shipping.
Panamanian officials and scientists have a plan to develop vessels in narrow streets corner.
They plan to submit for approval, the debate and perhaps also by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) next year.
Details of the proposal were presented at the International Whaling Commission (IWC) annual conference presented in Panama City.
Hector Guzman, the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute has the following plans of research comparing the movements of ships with the 15 humpback whales developed with satellite tags.
The maps show the whales swim through the Gulf of Panama, at the entrance of the canal into the Pacific Ocean side, repeatedly crossing the tracks of the ships.
"There were 98 interactions between whales and ships over a period of 11 days," he told the BBC.
"Had more than half of the meeting whales, whale had to be especially 45 games in four days."
An "interaction" was as close to a defined distance of 200 meters - although the area 13 deaths of whales in the last two and a half years, some of which were probably the result has seen a boat beaten.
Humpback whales in the north of their summer feeding grounds around Antarctica hike, reaching the region around the end of June.
They breed in the fertile waters of the Pearl, where an uplift of nutrient-rich water produces an annual plankton bloom






